Question

Despite our best efforts as parents, we will always make mistakes in raising our children. It's inevitable. There are so many decisions to be made in any given day, week, month, or year. It's an inhuman task to make all of these decisions correctly. Who would even want to try for perfection?

We shouldn't worry too much, though, because it is precisely our mistakes that teach our children the most about life. Life is full of mistakes, obstacles, and trouble. Shielding our children from these by striving for perfection in our own parenting does them no favors.

Given this, a parent might be tempted to give up trying to make good decisions and simply let the chips fall where they may. Admittedly, that attitude is not without its benefits, but it goes too far in the other direction. Children are much more observant than we think, but often draw the wrong conclusions from what they observe. If we give up trying to make the right decisions, they might get the message that we don't care about their future.

We can take comfort in this much: we teach our children even when we're not trying to. That doesn't mean we should stop trying to do our best, to make the right decisions whenever possible. It just means that we shouldn't beat ourselves up when we make mistakes. Either it won't matter because it's something small, or it just might build some character in our children, a commodity that will serve them well.

Which of these best describes the audience this author is speaking to? (5 points)



People who are considering becoming parents

People who do not want to have children

People who are concerned about their parenting ability

Answer 1

People who are concerned about their parenting ability. 

Answer 2

The statement that best describes the audience this author is speaking to is the third one: people who are concerned about their parenting ability.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this speech, the speaker is trying to demonstrate the audience that we won't be perfect as parents, and that that is actually a good thing. The speaker tries to show the audience that, as humans, we all make mistakes and that our children learn from us, even when we are wrong, they learn from our attitude, they learn from our ability to recognize our mistakes, to be humble. From everything we do, they learn. So it is not necessary to be perfect as a parent, nobody is, that shouldn't be an issue, they should not worry about making mistakes, they just need to be transparent and caring because that is the best thing to teach them.